Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months agoRight?? You’re telling me I could have been sending JKR letters with fake stamps this whole time and SHE’D have been charged actual money for it? My new greatest regret in life is missing the timeframe where I could have done that.
wiccan2@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They should still be charged if the wrong amount of postage has been paid.
So if you send what royal mail count as a large letter but with a normal stamp instead of a large letter stamp they will be fined and charged the difference in postage.
palordrolap@kbin.social 6 months ago
Only if they want the letter. If they don't want it, the postal service will gladly destroy it at no charge.
Thus, this isn't necessarily a good way to exact punishment on an unsuspecting recipient. Someone who gets a lot of fan (and hate) mail will gladly forego the small handful that don't have postage.
Mango@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s how it works or how it should work?
palordrolap@kbin.social 6 months ago
That's how it works. If mail isn't paid for it's made unavailable to the recipient.
I don't know how long they hold onto unpaid mail, but I assume they eventually destroy it, or open it, remove anything valuable for auction and get rid of anything else. Maybe if they're lazy, you might get something non-valuable for nothing if you know what landfill their waste goes to, but I expect they'd at least shred it.
Chances are they don't get valuables all that often because if the contents are valuable, someone's probably going to want to pay the price of postage to get it... and whoever sent it probably put the right postage on it in the first place, dodgy stamps notwithstanding, as well as a return address.
And that last part is why the policy is for the charge to go to the recipient. The postal service often has no idea who sent a letter, only where it's going.